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Sometimes, when people encounter embarrassing situations, they feel so ashamed that they want to burrow into the ground, yet they can’t help but recall the scene over and over again.

For example, at this moment, Yue Qianling curled her toes while uncontrollably scrolling through her and Gu Xun’s chat history.

Did she really chat so much nonsense with this person?

It was quite polite at the beginning, but why did it become so unrestrained later?

After reading her chat history with Gu Xun, she went on to check the group chat of the four of them.

Right.

With Xiao Mai and Luo Tuo in the mix, she became even more unscrupulous.

Recalling how she once acted like an idiot and told him, “Your voice sounds a lot like someone I like……”

Clearly, she had almost exhausted all her courage in confessing, but she didn’t expect that she had actually confessed hundreds of times without knowing it.

Yue Qianling didn’t know how Gu Xun would react when he remembered these things.

Anyway, she felt like grabbing a knife.

Either kill Gu Xun or kill herself.

After reading the chat history until past one o’clock, Yue Qianling successfully dug out a Disney castle with her toes.

Hopelessly staring at the ceiling for a while, she decided to take a shower to calm down.

Having spent the whole night at KTV, although she only had three glasses of beer, her body still picked up the smell of smoke and alcohol.

And taking a shower was probably the most commonly used shortcut for modern people to escape reality. When warm water showered down on her head, Yue Qianling finally felt relieved.

Later, Gu Xun sent Yue Qianling three more messages, but they all fell on deaf ears.

It seemed she was really ignoring him.

The night was as serene as water, and only a few households in the opposite building had still their lights on.

Gu Xun returned to his room, opened the computer, and wanted to do something.

However, after sitting for a while, he had a hard time calming down.

Just then, Luo Tuo suddenly sent him a video call.

Gu Xun was worried that he couldn’t find anyone to talk to, so he answered.

“Damn, why did you pick up?”

On the other side of the camera, Luo Tuo was lying on the bed, staring at his messy hair, “I pressed it by mistake.”

Gu Xun: “I’m hanging up.”

“Wait!”

Luo Tuo suddenly brought his face close to the camera, He squinted his eyes and asked, “What happened to your chin?”

Gu Xun said without much emotion, “I was beaten up.”

“Beaten up?!”

Luo Tuo almost immediately sat up, muttered a few words to his wife, and then lifted the quilt and walked toward the living room, “What’s going on? Why are you still fighting with someone?”

“What fight.”

Gu Xun turned his head slightly and looked out of the window at the faint starlight, “Yue Qianling hit me.”

“Yue Qianling? Sounds like a girl, who is she?”

Gu Xun didn’t speak, tilting his head and closing his eyes.

Luo Tuo was stunned for a moment, and then whispered, “Xiao……”

“It’s her.”

“No, why did she hit you? Doesn’t she like you? What did you do to her?”

In the quiet living room, even the sound of the air conditioner couldn’t suppress the heavy breathing of Gu Xun.

It was obviously a relatively cool summer night, but he couldn’t stop feeling restless and recounted what happened today in a few sentences.

Luo Tuo was stunned when he heard this, not sure whether to laugh or feel anxious for his brother.

“Don’t worry, I’m telling you, being hit is a good thing! Haven’t you heard that hitting is love and scolding is affection?”

Gu Xun: “Then why don’t you take a beating?”

“Alas, what I mean is, girls are tough in words but soft at heart. She definitely hasn’t let go of you yet.”

“Does she seem tough in words but soft at heart to you?”

Gu Xun tugged at his collar in annoyance, “You didn’t see her attitude towards me. She would speak one less word if possible, and never open her mouth unless necessary.”

He even thought that Yue Qianling must be thoroughly disappointed with him. And so, he could continue to live here openly and straightforwardly, like a stranger.

On the contrary, from Yue Qianling’s perspective, he couldn’t think of any reason for her to stay here. It couldn’t be because the deposit was too expensive.

On the other side of the camera, Luo Tuo’s wife was yelling at him.

So, he hurriedly walked towards the room. Before ending the video call, he said, “You just don’t understand. A strong woman is afraid of a persistent man! Don’t believe that she doesn’t like you when she says so!”-

The video on the computer was disconnected, and the phone on the table rang again.

Gu Xun raised his eyes, thinking about what Luo Tuo said, and at the same time, he stood up to pick up the phone.

Under the dim light, his eyebrows suddenly raised.

【Cilantro connoisseur who loves chili】: Did you swallow my hairdryer???

【Cilantro connoisseur who loves chili】: Hurry up and give it back to me!

【Is it illegal to be bad at something, sir】: I’ll bring it to you.

【Cilantro connoisseur who loves chili】: No need, hang it on the doorknob, I’ll get it myself.

She really didn’t even want to look at him.

Gu Xun tilted his head and was about to stand up, but the wound on his jaw was suddenly pulled, causing a slight pain to strike again.

He couldn’t help but raise his hand to touch the wound.

She was really ruthless.

Thinking back to what Yue Qianling had said, that he had no value in her heart except for his face.

But now, she doesn’t even want his face anymore.

***

Yue Qianling remembered that her hairdryer was still at Gu Xun’s after coming out of the shower.

She paced around the room with wet hair, feeling extremely annoyed.

It was all her fault for being curious and couldn’t resist going through all the chat logs. Those conversations were like imprints engraved in her mind.

Now she had to face Gu Xun in person, which was almost no different from going up a mountain of knives and down a sea of fire.

But if she didn’t have the hairdryer, he hair was so long that if she waited for it to air dry, she wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight.

After much internal struggle, Yue Qianling finally came up with a compromise.

She would wait for Gu Xun to hang the hairdryer on the doorknob and avoid embarrassment by sneaking out to take it.

So, she adopted an attitude of ‘prepare for the worst’ and sent him this message.

Luckily, he hadn’t gone to sleep yet.

After sitting in the living room for five minutes, Yue Qianling estimated that Gu Xun had already handled everything, so she walked to the door.

Before going out, she tiptoed and looked through the peephole.

Phew…

The corridor was quiet, he should have hung it up already.

So, Yue Qianling cautiously pressed the door handle.

Feeling like a thief, she extended one hand to touch the handle outside the door.

After fumbling for a while, she didn’t touch anything.

Where is the hairdryer?

Is it on the floor?

Yue Qianling had no choice but to surreptitiously poke her head out and glance at the doorknob, then looked at the floor.

There was nothing.

At this moment, the door opposite suddenly opened.

Gu Xun, holding her hairdryer, suddenly appeared in her sight.

Yue Qianling: “……”